AT&T pushes out Windows Phone 7.5 Tango for Samsung Focus 2

AT&T and Microsoft tonight have begun pushing out Windows Phone 7.5 build 8773 aka Tango to the Samsung Focus 2 (see our review). The previous version of the OS was version 8112 aka the LTE build. First reported in our comments by MDiBo, we were able to verify on our own Focus 2 that the update is indeed live...

Windows Phone Tango brings numerous small fixes to the OS, including multiple images in MMS, send ringtones (MMS), more reliable push notifications, new wallpapers and other optimizations.

After the OS is updated users will be prompted to do yet another update, which will install new Samsung firmware to coincide with the OS upgrade.Though we have not verified what this firmware update contains, it usually fixes minor issues related to the camera, proximity sensors, volume controls and potentially the display. We’ll try to verify any changes over the next few days.

We did test other AT&T Windows Phones including the HTC Titan, Titan II and Focus S and were not able to verify any OS or firmware updates for those devices at this time.

Update: The Tango Update for the Samsung Focus 2 took about thirty minutes. Times will vary depending on how long the backup stage takes. When all is said and done the new Firmware version is 2103.12.10.1 and a new Radio software version is 2103.12.9.1.

They push this update *now* ??? Gee, thanks AT&T....it only took you how long?
Thankfully, updates are now OTA and we no longer have to be held hostage by your gross incompetence, negligence and greed.

MAKE SURE YOUR FOCUS IS version 1.3 and NOT 1.4
Get the 7.8 ROM from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016769 and use the SMS Backup utility from the same forum (search for it on XDA) and the rest of the stuff will be backed up by zune. Only downside is you have to re-install all your apps and the App saves such as your progress in games and stuff will be lost. If you are okay with that then this ROM is 100% stable and working! I have the older 7.8 8835 ROM on my focus which has been running really really stable for months now and planning to update to this one soon.

Maybe that's not true this time, and Tango is a prerequisite for 7.8 for some reason. I don't think any sane carrier would try to get in the way of 7.8, given the noise people made about their "older" handsets not getting 8.0.

I suppose it would kill them to release an update for the original Focus and the inexcusable length of time it has been suffering the missing keyboard. still on 7220 thank you AT&T as I know MSFT has had this update to you since probably last January!!!!!

Sorry folks! I got a group of psychics over here trying to get them to press the "7.8" update button. But since KARL is being selfish he made them press the WRONG button! My bad!
"You know who else pressed the wrong button? MY MOM!" - Muscle Man

Finally they pushed the updated out to Focus 2 user's. Focus S and Focus Flash got our Tango and Firmware Updates months ago. Original Focus Users are in EOL so no update's unless they manually update to Tango..

An at&t rep told me that they released tango in June, I emailed customer support about my Samsung focus sgh-i917. I was told to connect my phone to PC and start Zune and it would update, I told them nothing happens and then they said to contact Samsung because there's nothing they can do. Samsung told me to connect phone to PC and start Zune and my phone should update. I'm in the process about email both at&t and Samsung showing them that my phone won't update and according to at&t my phone should update because they released the update in June.

So I did the manual update for the HTC Titan but because it was a general update and not specific to the device voice notes do not work. ATT is a freaking joke at getting these updates out. If not for the manual CAB installer method my keyboard would still be doing magic tricks! Abra cadabra....disappear.lol

ATT's excuse for not pushing this update out: "Errr, we could not push out this update because there was a 6 month long computer error that we just fixed...everything is under control now, updates to your phones should come as soon as possible now."

-I would so tell people that if I worked for ATT as a customer service rep.

One of these days an update for my AT&T HTC Titan would be nice. 7720 is getting pretty stale with the disappearing keyboard action. Updating using the CAB method just doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Why can't AT&T pull their heads out of their butts?

I've had mine on HD7 ages ago (using the update trick method (pull the network plug).
I'm thinking about getting the ATIV S, unlocked, If this is Samsung fault, I'd have to reconsider getting the ATIV S.

What do you think? Would the ATIV S unlocked/unbranded suffer the same late update?

I really hope that starting with WP 8 MS has finally with this BS under control. I also really hope all phones will actually get the 7.8 update, including the models that are beyond the 18-month support window. I know, people have said time and time again all WP7 devices will be getting 7.8. I hate to be a pessimist, but I'll believe it when I see multi-sized tile glory on everyone's phones.

Wishes At&t would send out Tango Update and finally fix the Disappearing Keyboard on HTC Windows Phone 7 Surround, been waiting and waiting for update to fix that issue for months now. Contemplating just switching to Sprint and Android when my contract is up in April 2013, Unless something changes my mind by then, but I don't know right now

This i smy primary beef with Sammy Phones. THey are so oddly customized by samsung that they're always left way behind at Update time. Remeber how the original Focus turned out to have two different "Secret" versions an donly some could be updated to NoDo until Sammy bothered to write the necessary Drivers? The best part was that son-one at Sammy ot MSoft seemed to be aware of it for weeks.

I loved my WinMo Sammy Phones, but until they either stop thsi nonsense and/or devote enough resources to keeping their 'customized' phones up to date I'm sticking with Nokia - the Update King!